Help wanted: 'Adventurous' woman to give birth to ... a Neanderthal baby?

Pioneering Harvard geneticist George Church suggests that the day is coming when we'll want to reverse-engineer the Neanderthal genome and pass the now-extinct creatures' advantages to our own progeny. All that's needed would be an "extremely adventurous female human" to serve as a surrogate mother.

During an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Church was asked whether a Neanderthal baby would be born in his lifetime. "That depends on a hell of a lot of things," the 58-year-old replied, "but I think so." (snip)

7. Horrible idea

I would like to be able to see a Neanderthal in living color. But, it doesn't seem like anyone has thought about the rights of the little Neanderthal baby if it is born. Who will raise it? Will it be raised? I shudder to think that it wouldn't be and that seems very unethical to me.

On the other hand this baby if it was raised in with a family wouldn't appear to be very different. The problem is we don't know enough to know if the baby would have the same language acquisition abilities or what other mental capabilities it would have. And if the baby can't adapt to a human world, will someone take care of it until it is in it's 70's or 80's. If not will they institutionalize this baby when it becomes apparent if that is the case, that it can't adapt?